In this first episode, Jeff addresses these questions:

What brought Jeff into this work? Why does he focus on helping those with TBI?  What are some of the challenges in serving the TBI patient in a treatment setting? What would Jeff say to the parent or a person with traumatic brain injury himself who might be feeling hopeless? Is it possible ...

I am thirty-six years separated from my last head injury, so as a matter of technically speaking, I am under nobody’s “care”.

Except my Own. And that, reader, is a great deal of responsibility. On the days when I don’t want “it” enough for me, I hope and strive to want it enough for you, because working with TBI is my gig, and if I am to ask ...

I had some recent inspiration over the weekend to change- content wise- what I choose to publish here. I think I’ve been coming at TBI from a technical perspective, which even for me, would be a yawn fest. Vulnerability takes courage, but it is what reaches people, and what makes writing worth reading. Here is some of that.

Inner child work.

As ...

Such a strange thing, to have a long beholden missing piece of the puzzle fall right into your lap, unexpectedly, on a Friday morning. I was talking to Vancouver-based Dr Gerald Komarnicky today- who really is an Optometrist (eye doctor) but specializes and believes that brain injuries are diagnosable with basic and simple vision tests that look ...

stig·ma/ˈSocial stigma is the disapproval of, or discrimination against, an individual or group based on perceivable social characteristics that serve to distinguish them from other members of a society.

I know, and have met people, who spend a great deal of time on this: ending stigma. Even at the Congressional level, and certainly at the ...

One of the most frequent set of symptoms to accompany TBI- especially of the sports variety (i.e. Concussion) would be that of Irlen Syndrome. Irlen sufferers usually have bouts of nausea, sensitivity to light; they may or may not experience words floating around on the page when trying to read, and concentration maybe extremely difficult. On some ...

A good friend and I were musing one night about his time overseas in Afghanistan, and he shared with me (more or less) the field assessment of attempting to determine if someone had sustained a brain injury. It went something like this: Is there an open head wound? Is blood coming out of the eyes? Is a clear fluid leaking from the ears? is there ...